<br></div><div>And whenever I use <font face="courier new,monospace">ct:pal("~p",[application:which_applications()])</font> in the suite, I get [] as a result. Further inspection shows that the distributed applications I have are read by the controllers, but stdlib and kernel are not started.</div>

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I should specify this problem is something I noticed when using distributed tests based on ct_slave; I would suspect that local tests being run from a shell started manually do not suffer from this.<div><div>
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<div>I've recently discovered that Common Test appears to not be starting basic applications such as kernel and stdlib, but it still starts things like application controllers and whatnot.<br></div><div><br></div><div>

This gives me a few problems because it breaks a few behaviours such as application:which_applications(), being able to start a few applications (they depend on stdlib and kernel. Sstdlib depends on kernel, and manually starting kernel fails because a bunch of processes already have that name). </div>

<div><br></div><div>It will also play negatively with things like manually calling application:set_env/3 before starting an application to configure it (after loading it) as just starting it will overwrite all values, etc. </div>

<div> </div><div>This causes me a few problems because it forces me to test everything below the application level, and I can't automate testing of things like distributed applications and their failover/takeover mechanisms.</div>